While businesses in urban areas are still adopting VoIP services, Sean Buckley, an editor for Fiercetelecom, wrote that the technology may be helping to breathe life into smaller companies in rural areas.

Companies have been increasingly looking to move their unified communications systems into the cloud lately, but in interviews with Fierce Enterprise Communications, professionals said companies should move carefully.

Demand is starting to rise for unified communications, according to a recent report by Forrester, and a big reason is because companies are starting to see the technology’s potential for mobile and video services.

A big moment for landlines and VoIP is coming soon, according to GigaOM. AT&T recently announced that it wants to shut down its circuit switched networks, which could mean a much greater adoption of VoIP and unified communications forthcoming.

Many companies have already seen some huge benefits of VoIP services such as cost savings, ease of use and flexibility, but there are other features that can make a company even more efficient, according to Smart Business Online.

With the growth of VoIP and similar services in the United Kingdom, many have been predicting the death of landlines, but a recent report posted by Silicon Republic showed that about half of U.K. consumers are still using landlines to make international phone calls.